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Super Green Beret #1
(April 1967)
Lightning Comics [1960s], 1967 Series
Price 0.25 USD Pages 68 Indicia Frequency bi-monthly Indicia / Colophon Publisher Milson Publishing Co., Inc. Brand A Lightning Comic Editing Wendell Crowley Color color Dimensions standard silver age US Paper Stock newsprint Publishing Format was ongoing
Cover
Super Green Beret
1 page
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Comic Story
The Curtain Rises Super Green Beret
10 pages
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Characters: Super Green Beret [Tod Holton] (Intro; Origin); Captain Roger Wilson (Intro); Mr. and Mrs. Holton (Intro); Viet Cong (Villain)
Comic Story
Rebel Rat-Hole
Super Green Beret
10 pages
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Comic Story
White Magic In the Black Forest
Super Green Beret
9 pages
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Characters Adolf Hitler (Villain); Nazis (Villain)
Illustration
Pin-up
Super Green Beret
2 pages
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Comic Story
Give Me a Little Man Anytime
10 pages
Pencils Wayne Marston
Inks Wayne Marson
Genre war
Text Story
Our Country
1 page
Letters typeset
Comic Story
Sorcery Against Saboteurs
Featuring Super Green Beret
10 pages
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Characters Viet Cong (Villain) |
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| A bit of a Capt. Marvel rebirth here. A SHAZAM looking magician, bestowing super powers to a 'pure in heart' teenager. Dress - red shirt and blue trousers, same colors as Billy Batson. The teen puts on the beret and is transformed into an adult. The Lightening Comics logo is very similar to the lightening flash panel used in the Fawcet's Capt. Marvel. This isn't to say that I don't approve, in fact this comic book is very good. It's a great pity that it didn't last longer than a few editions.
Devil's scanning is a pleasure to edit, great stuff. |
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| This may be technically speaking, ' A good comic' but it was a serious miscalculation. There is a reason that most comic companies stayed away from Vietnam comics at the time. Marvel stayed with WW2 with Sgt Fury and Kanigher's DC war books rarely had Vietnam stories. There just was not a market for them. Vietnam was an unpopular and messy war. For the age group that bought comics, Conscription was a very real possibility and the war was not seen as a real threat in any way to the US (or its allies like Australia) and there was considerable opposition to it.
The creators of Viet War comics at this time were Veterans of WW2 and Korea and couldn't see that hero stories of that type didn't go over well at all.
It was only later, in the 80's and 90s that a few comics came out that dealt with Vietnam Realistically. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1967 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
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| Comic Story | The Curtain Rises (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
| Content | Characters: Super Green Beret [Tod Holton] (Intro; Origin); Captain Roger Wilson (Intro); Mr. and Mrs. Holton (Intro); Viet Cong (Villain) |
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| Featuring | True Combat Action |
| Credits | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | Rebel Rat-Hole (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
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| Comic Story | White Magic In the Black Forest (9 pages) |
| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
| Content | Characters: Adolf Hitler (Villain); Nazis (Villain) |
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| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer? | Inks: Carl Pfeufer? |
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| Featuring | True Combat Action |
| Credits | Letters: Ben Oda |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Comic Story | Give Me a Little Man Anytime (10 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils: Wayne Marston (signed) | Inks: Wayne Marson (signed) |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Illustration | Headgear 'A La Mode (2 pages) |
| Featuring | In Vietnam |
| Credits | Script: William J. Dolan | Pencils: William J. Dolan | Inks: William J. Dolan | Letters: typeset; William J. Dolan? |
| Content | Genre: War |
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| Text Article | Our Country (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | Super Green-Beret |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer? | Inks: Carl Pfeufer? | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Ad for the next issue includes a subscription form. |
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| Comic Story | Sorcery Against Saboteurs (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Super Green Beret |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
| Content | Characters: Viet Cong (Villain) |
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| Featuring | Fatman the Human Flying Saucer |
| Credits | Pencils: C.C. Beck (illustration) | Inks: C. C. Beck (Illustration) |
| Notes | House ad for Fatman the Human Flying Saucer # 1. |
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